Tag: commodities fraud

sec fraud
March 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Craigslist ad scammer Lon Friedrichsen (aka Kummer aka Richardson) charged with solicitation fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging Lon Olen Friedrichsen of Alton, Iowa, with fraud and failing to register with the CFTC as a Commodity Trading Advisor, as required. Friedrichsen, as alleged, also solicited…

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ICO fraud
January 29, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Spoofing and Commodities Fraud charges lead to $46 million in fines for Deutsche Bank, HSBC and UBS

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced, in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Investigative Division, criminal and civil enforcement actions against three banks and six individuals involved in commodities fraud and spoofing schemes. What is spoofing? Spoofing is the practice of bidding or offering with the intent to…

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DFSA
October 10, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Grace Reisinger and ROF Consulting hit with $2 million judgment for Commodities Fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Final Judgment and Order against Grace Elizabeth Reisinger of Grand Island, Nebraska and her company ROF Consulting, LLC (ROF) for operating a fraudulent commodity pool scheme. The Order, entered on October…

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April 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Nathan Schleifer and Galileo Trading banned by the CFTC and fined $1.6 million for commodities fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has settled charges against Nathan Schleifer of New York City, and his company Galileo Trading LLC for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade commodity futures, and for repeatedly making numerous false statements and material misrepresentations to the National Futures Association (NFA) regarding their trading practices. From at least 1999 through…

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